5 may. 2014

Diego Delas / kidchalao

Tracking Justo.“Fatherland, learn from the most inextinguishable way”Denk Dir,Paul Celan.Tracking Justo is a work of process in which the objective is to
throw light on the period and the customs of the man who recorded songs
and coplillas (folk songs) and learned these from hisgrandmothers in an attempt to preserve this heritage. As a continuation
of the works on Desdocumentaciones, in which some documents from Ribera
del Duero folklore were researched and compiled, the aim was to
elaborate a succession of images, files or tracks of these documents.
With the excuse of keeping them for historical and heritage reasons, a
new series of documents were generated and legitimized by means of
painting. In these documents possible narrative forms are made up in a
certain time and place. In this case, the local environment is used to
speak about other things and emphasize questions like memory, loss and
forgetfulness. This is the reason why the beginning of this text has
started with Celan's lines as a sarcastic remark.In this work the songs, the dances and the daily routine are the corner
stone for the creation of a file which, because of its display, suggests
hiding something mysterious, a kind of underlying plot. In thiswork we are unable to make out whether the information displayed, frozen
through the use of archives, has historical, biological or emotional
roots

Los gigantes.Taller educativo y performance.Video digital DV16:9 Duración 1:40 min.Construcción junto a alumnos de varios institutos de dos gigantes de inspiración, colores ytemáticas castellanas, en Greater Manchester.En Los Gigantes, se persiguió la inserción, aunque sea
momentánea de un fragmento de cultura, en otra bien distinta. Un ritual
fuera de contexto, alejado de la tierra, donde posee ciertos
significados. Una porción de un modelo, insertada por un tiempo
determinado en un sistema global, en el que no se reconoce ni
significa, y mejor: lo hace brillar aún más, y tomar significados
abiertos y poliédricos. Sólo una figura atravesando el poema.Así, con la excusa de un taller para jóvenes sobre folclore y estéticas urbanas en Manchester, se aprovechó para construir con ellos, primero una idea de lo que es un gigante castellano (desde el desconocimiento de fondo) para después,
- y como todo lo de los pueblos -, materializarlo en conjunto
trabajosamente, el uno con el otro y entre todos, como las tareas del
invierno. Así fue la laboriosidad de atar las cintas y disponerlas,
coserlas y ensamblarlas en el disfraz para luego ver cómo se marcha,
para la nada.Esas cintas con su significado y colorido; el baile, las carreras y canciones aunque aparecían, lo hacían sólo a medias. Implícitos pero ilegibles, en un gigante en medio
de la ciudad, fuera de la tradición, la historia y de todo. Como una
hoja de papel que volando, atraviesa una estancia, sin que nadie pueda
hacer mucho más que imaginar algo, lo que fuera. Eso exactamente eran
los gigantes. Un desmejorado e ilegible trozo de cultura entre comillas
que atraviesa la escena.-/ENG/The giants.Workshop and performance.Digital video DV16:9 Duration 1:40 min.With the help of some High School students of Greater Manchester, two Giants were built. These giants were inspired by topics and colours from Castile.In The Giants the objective was the incorporation of a momentary
cultural fragment into a different situation and context. A rite out of
context, far away from its native land, has a different meaning. A
portion of a model, which was incorporated within a global system for a
certain amount of time, loses its recognition and its meaning. This is
all for the best; in this context it shines more, and this is because
the new environment allows it to have polyhedral and open meanings. It
is only a figure getting through a poem.In this way, with the excuse of a workshop for young people about
folklore and urban aesthetics in Manchester, an idea of what a Castilian
giant is was first devised. The ignorance of what a Castilian giant
really is was a key feature in this project. The next step was to
materialize all of this laboriously. Everyone carried out this together,
and there was a constant involvement of each person of the group which
reminded me of how people from villages cooperate together in the
winter’s tasks. In this way, the laboriousness of this task consisted of
binding the ribbons, preparing, sewing and assembling them into the
costume. This process ended up seeing how it goes away, how it vanishes
into thin air. Implicit but unreadable, the giant is placed in the
middle of a city, out of their tradition and history. Just like a
deteriorated and unreadable piece of “culture” getting slowly through a
stage.